Luftwaffe Spreads Death Through Home Counties
WIDE PATH OF New
BLITZ ATTACK Greek ON SATURDAY
(By Reuter's Air Correspondent) REPORTS FILTERINg through from DAZED VILLAGES AND SMALL TOWNS IN EAST ANGLIA AND THE HOME COUNTIES, AND FROM THE THAMES ESTUARY DIS- TRICTS, CONFIRMED A WIDER PATH OF THE GERMAN AIR BLITZ ON LONDON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD ON SATURDAY NIGHT EVEN THAN ON WEDNESDAY, WHEN MANY OUTER SUBURBS, INCLUDING THE SOUTH- ÉAST, SUFFERED AS HEAVILY AS THE „METROPOLIS.
According to the German High Command this was another reprisal raid for the R.A.F. attack on Berlin, but from the communique, in which the raid was given pride of place, large fires claimed in the Thames Bend, Mill wall dock and Greenwich, appear to have given the Nazis most satisfaction.
FOUR FEET MICKEY'S RESOURCE
The Air Ministry 1ni Londoti stated yesterday that the attacks on London were heasy and caus- ed much damage, and casualties are expected to be "tanly high
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IT ADDS THAT BOMBS WERE DROPPED OUTSIDE LONDON THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES AND DID DAMAGE AT SEVERAL POINTS
Casualties, on the whole, however, were not heavy, it was stated.
Cabinet
Composition of the new |Greek ~ Cabinet presided over by King George of the Hellenes was an- nounced last night, states Athens radio.
Deputy Prime Minister is Vice- Admira Alexander Sakellarious, Chief of Naval Staff He will also be Minister for Navy.
Other Ministers are: War General Panagakon Au. General Nicolaides Communication and General Korzas.
Foreign Affaus. Finance and National Economy, monuel Um deru
atud Press. M
Pub ae Welfare Nikoloudas
Agriculture
Demetratos
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Railways,
Labout.
M
Interior and Public Security, M. Mamadakos
Education and Justice M. F Sekeris
Under-Secretary. of State for Shipping. M. S. Theophanules.
The new Government took the oath of 5 15 yesterday afternoon and held its first meeting mine Idiately afterwards Reuter
AIR BATTLES
IN GREECE
Operations in Greece
There was some enemy last Friday, in which 10
yester - activity during daylight day over the coasts of Kent ani north-east Scotland.
1
aircraft German
were! destroyed and many others seriously damaged. lew are described by the Air Ministry news service.
Among many press re- ports of courage and cool ness on the part of Lon, don's civil population in Saturday night's and east Scotland. causing Wednesday night's indis-casualus, states, an criminate raids on the capital is one describing how a 16-year-old mes- senger boy, Michael O'Connor, four feet high, helped not only in the carrying of messages at the height of the blitz bul also in fighting fires and in casualty clearance.
Bombs were dropped by sugle ! nireraft at two points in north I
Air try comminagtin. Reuter,
In the words of the post warden, "Mickey" could not do enough. Seven times he wa ked from a fire round to the local fire station with messages. He also helped fight a fire at a church which was sav-
ed from serious damage
He also assisted a casually to a
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BULGARIA
GRABS
While Going Is Good Bulgaria
Fighter pilots of the RA.F. sought out and destroyed enemy aircraft in a number of offensive patrols.
a
One Hurricane squadron ran into 10 JU87's escorted by
of large formation
ME 109'8. like Against odds something
British four
one the fighters went into battle.
to
When, bullet-scarred but still Fat full strength, the squadron re-
turned to base i) Young pilut a brief description of officer gave his part in the encounter,
"We arrived over the Pharsala been, aren has
to find a lot
German of
which fighters escorting JU87's granted temporary new were dive bombing an army cul-
first aid post and carried out other frontiers in the Mace-voy.
duties throughout the raid
This was O'Connor's second baptism of fire for he had pre- viously carried out invaluable
work on Wednesday night.
show that
London
donia, Thrace and Mora- Via regions of Yugoslavia. according to the German radio quoted by Reuter.
A study of reports from centres broughout London civilians of either sex Bulgarian troops will continue and any age are cooperating in to advance in western Thrace so the, fullest degree in the work of as to occupy territory limited in defeating the savage attacks. on the cast by a line leading, from London's morale-attacks which, the Bulgarian frontier town of become clear last Servengrade, southward to it should have autumn to the heads of the luft- Bdegach, on the Aegean Sea. waffe, were doomed to failure.- British Wireless.
RIOTING PERSISTS
AT AHMEDABAD
Set On Fire
One seemed intent <371 his dive but when I got on his tail he altered his mind and tried to burst set slip away. My first him on fire.
In Macedonia, the Bulgariana will proceed as far west as, the River Vardar, and to, the south as far as the, former Greek tor
me
The German air gunner opened fire on then but 1 After another burst. got in that the bomber dived straight to earth and crashed on the hillside.
Next instant I caught sight of another JU87 and got under- neath it and fired into the radia- My second burst from as- tern sent the bomber nose-down In the north-west the advance and there was black smoke_pour, will be to the, River Morava. ing from
engine."British
frontier.
The Germans. emphasise that Wireless..
One was killed and four wound- | these lines are. not to be regarded
ed when police opened fire, for as definite. frontiers, Reuter. the second time on a rioting mob
More than 400 have, been taken
in Ahmedabad.
into custody.
Latest casualties in the
the
A
WAR SAVINGS total
murial rioting, which broke
com-
out on Friday, are 56 killed and 304 wounded. Reuter,
TAI-O CRIME
of £11,009,839 was raised in war savings in Britain
Wire-
A headless corpse of a man last week, making a grand total was found on a hillside at Tal-O of £712,038,855.-British on Saturday morning by villagers. less.
VIGOROUS DRIVE AGAINST ENEMY SHIPPING
THE AIR MINISTRY news service gives further details of daylight attacks on enemy shipping.
It says: "On Saturday daylight attacks on enemy shipping were made in the course of a wide and persistent attack off the Dutch and French coasts.
The ships were metly pa oceed., direct hits from 50 teet The sup ang mi smail convoys, often guard | heeled over to port at an angle ad by naval eseud venel and of 35 degiver and a cammed :1 Mies hmat 109
total loss
In addition to dropping their bombs, Benheim aircraft of the Bomber Command also use Imachine guns and in one ins tance raked the docks of every ship in the small convoy.
A 5,000-tons supply ship was aftacked in the morning by al- craft which droppert bombs from between 100 and 50 feet Five threet luts were counted and the shop was set on fire. When last seen it was going down by the stern.
A 7000 tons supply ship was attacked in the afternoon, It was guarded by destroyers which put up a great deal of heavy A.A. fire.
Direct Hits
The attack was very sudden and mu aircraft immediately got two
Other ships were attacked with bombs and machine gun fire but the weather prevented accurate observation of results. Imber of inconclusive Lencounters with escorting Messer-
schmidt 199's at least one
hier was damaged
Wireless.
BRITAIN ASKS
Y
British
FOR FOOD SUPPLY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Britain has asked the United States, under the Lease and Lend Act for 15,000,000 cans of toma- toes, several million cans of milk and a large quantity of dried foods. International News SPT-
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